Beijing Protests

Some of my more brilliant comments didn’t end up on the show’s podcast, so here’s what I said the first time:

We already see China as an economic power, we don’t need the Olympics to show us that everything in the whole world is made in China. But we don’t have a good impression of Chinese police, Chinese media or personal freedom in China.

If there is some kind of non-violent dissent at the Olympics — I’m not going to suggest what groups might be involved, or what forms it might take — and we don’t see a harsh military response, protestors don’t get tossed into prisons, and we don’t see a media cover-up, it would be an awesome opportunity for China to show that they really are a modern nation.

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